Canon Can-Scan LiDE 50 (Canon Canoscan LiDE 50)

Member Name: alexmonkey

Product:	Canon Canoscan LiDE 50
Date:	01/06/04 (383 review reads)
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Advantages: very portable, works everytime, good for work use

Disadvantages: sometimes not very good quality, small, is that bad?

Because I travel a lot for work, I needed a scanner so that I can scan documents and images. I came across this very handy scanner after looking around for a while for a scanner that was portable, useable and most of all, of high quality.

I had already tries several other scanners that were of no use to me at all, either too full of features or not at all and not very good. I found that this one had it all. I found it in review site, I can?t remember which one now, but I managed to pick one up from my local hardware store for about 59.99.

A very annoying thing about this scanner was that it came with FIVE software cds; I think they went a little over the top there. Considering that half of them are software to edit pictures from the scanner, not even use the scanner.

The scanner had a very nice feel to it, its was brushed aluminium, it?s of good quality and it looks good too. One the front is four EZ-Buttons, for; scanning, printing, emailing and photocopying. These buttons are very useful if you want to just quickly print off a document or email one to you friend for some reason. This scanner also uses up minimal desk space so you can have enough room for other stuff. One thing though is, try not to get the top of it scratched, bad thing!

There is one USB port, and that is the only port. How simple. This is really good, seeing as I travel constantly so now I can only carry around one USB wire with me. Because its USB powered, you don?t need a mains plug either. The USB is version 2.0 so it is the fastest

Installing this scanner is a breeze, so long as you don?t install all of the software, as I said above five cds for software and manuals, how many more do you need? All that I wanted to install was the drivers, since I already have software setup specially for using the scanner that I need.

The help manuals that are included are of great help when stuck with a problem, not that there are very many.

The
scanning quality with this scanner is absolutely brilliant, with a 1200 x 2400 dpi and 48-bit colour scanning quality you can?t go wrong, unless you buy the wrong scanner that is. It has low energy consumption, so you don?t have to watch out for the battery of your laptop when using it either. Faster at scanning documents, this scanner is very good if you are always on the go and you need to scan something very quickly.

With the multi-mode software, you can scan around ten completely different images or documents, and then you can work with each one separately, very useful for scanning a long document with multiple pages.

This scanner works with the followind operating systems ?

Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional , Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, Apple MacOS 9.0 or later, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Apple MacOS X 10.1 or later, Apple MacOS X 10.1.3 or later

This scanner is made for people on the go and fro people who want a space consuming with a stylish design that does not hinder performance at all, you must buy it!

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